Lindsey Vonn won her 63rd World Cup race in the Cortina d'Ampezzo super-G, breaking Annemarie Moser-Pröll's 35-year-old record for the most victories in women's Alpine skiing history.
A treacherous day, one clean line
Heavy snowfall had left the Olympia delle Tofane course soft and unforgiving. Early runners crashed hard, and the day would end with 17 DNFs.
Vonn, wearing bib 22 as the last of the top seeds, delivered a run that silenced the chaos. She cut through the difficult snow and stopped the clock at 1:27.03.
0.85 seconds that reset history
Olympic super-G champion Anna Fenninger had held the lead, with the top three women separated by only 0.14 seconds. Vonn carved a commanding 0.85-second margin into that tight contest, leaving no argument about who was fastest.
"I didn't think it was going to get better than yesterday, but today just topped it," she told reporters. Boyfriend Tiger Woods made a surprise visit to the finish, having flown in after watching her tie the record from Florida a day earlier.
A record built on super-G steel
The win was her fifth in Cortina and a women's alpine record 21st career super-G victory. Only Hermann Maier, with 24, has more across all disciplines.
It arrived one day after she equalled Moser-Pröll's mark of 62 wins, meaning she seized both the equaliser and the outright record in a single weekend. She reached this peak in her 333rd start, a longer journey than Moser-Pröll's 174.
The milestone formed part of a determined comeback from the knee injury that ended her 2013 World Championships. Cortina, a place that had carried her before, had now delivered her into the record books alone.
